Editorials

The Coahoma County boys basketball team may have missed out on its chance to win a third consecutive Class 2A state championship, but that does not take away from how proud we, as a community, should be of the Red Panthers.

As the rain fell, and fell, and fell, most of last week we couldn’t help but think this couldn’t have come at a better time for those in favor of Clarksdale residents agreeing in August to pick up a hefty tab to fix our drainage and flooding issues within the city limits.

When the Trump brothers, Donald Jr. and Eric, pulled the plug on their hotel company’s expansion plans — and cut their ties with Suresh and Dinesh Chawla, who own three hotels in Clarksdale — they blamed the decision on a hostile political environment.

That is one expensive bandage the Coahoma County Board of Supervisors applied earlier this week to that looming massive cut to the community in the form of the closing of the Northwest Mississippi Regional Medical Center.

To all who have sent condolences of any kind to me in the death of my wife, please accept my gratitude. She was the love of my life and I will miss her terribly the rest of my life. Please know that your kindness has meant a lot to me and I will always remember you for remembering me in such a sweet way.